Well, my new friend in the foster program promised and boy, did she ever deliver! On Monday morning I received an 11 page, month-by-month update beginning in February of last year up to this month. I am shocked that all of this information exists yet would never have been provided to us. Once again, the whole China adoption baffles me and makes me throw my hands in the air saying “What the?” But at the same time, we did find [...]

What a roller coaster the last few days have been. Sheesh. Little did I know the can of worms I would open simply by following a friend’s advice to check out this foster program’s website to see if Macey may have been part of the program. Not only did we find out that she was indeed part of the program, but we got an even bigger piece of news last night. Parker and I attended a school board meeting [...]

Well, if there is any good to come of last night’s panic attack, after finding new info on Macey on a foster home’s website, it’s that we got a really great update on her from our agency in the wee hours of the morning. I had sent a distress signal to them by way of a total freaked out email. I basically said hey, there are two big, BIG issues that weren’t disclosed in her paperwork, so we need further [...]

Today is our big kid’s 6th birthday. Yep, turned 6 on 6/06. That means he was born on 6/06/06! Yowza, hello Damien! HA. He couldn’t be more the opposite. The sweetest most easy going kid ever. I don’t know about you all, but on birthdays, or really starting a few days prior, I get all sappy remembering the day my kids were born and all the sweet moments between now and then. And it’s funny that I can’t think about [...]

That’s the question that’s been circling around in my little head. When I was visibly pregnant, it was an obvious topic of conversation. Even strangers would engage in the “So, how far along are you?” or ”Do you know if you’re having a boy or a girl?” talk at the supermarket check out lane. But this time there’s no belly, it only comes up because I bring it up, and more and more lately I have found myself wondering [...]

I almost don’t know what to do with myself. I have free time and no longer obsessing over documents and deadlines, waking up in the middle of the night with the thought one little detail I need to take care of, etc. It’s a strange, yet welcomed feeling. Now we wait patiently for LID and LOA, the next two big hurdles. All the while doing nothing on our part but starting to actually prepare for Macey to come home. It’s [...]